#wellbeing

Gandalf taken by a Balrog in Moria surprised Smallsteps, as he had been a staple character through the Hobbit also. However, even at that point she was working out ways he may have survived and suspected

The picture is of my gym locker padlock. It is a three-wheel model, which means it has 1000 possible combinations. Considering it has to protect a gym bag with an inhaler in it, that is good enough. In

Goodday Everyone. I applied for a job and a few days later, I was called for an interview. I went for the interview, and after everything, they told me that I got the job. I was happy because getting a

Who is to be held accountable? In Australia and Finland (and I assume many other countries) private gun storage laws are quite strict and require the gun to be stored unloaded, behind lock and key, and

Se dice mucho que los amigos son esa familia que puedes escoger, pero: La suerte de encontrar amigos verdaderos también es necesaria. ¿Será cierto o falso? Si nos ponemos a reflexionar, usted puede escoger

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" _Thumper While I agree with the sentiment that we should be kind to each other, I also believe that this kind of mentality has been

There is a very particular nostalgia in being a mom of adult children. It's not sadness because they've grown up. On the contrary. One wants to see them move forward, become independent, build a life and

Smallsteps and I watched A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough, and I found it really good. It was released in 2020 when David was a young 93 years of age (he is 100 now), and had footage of him back

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

kill my dreams is to ask too many people what they think about them. Not everyone can see the potential of what you are still building, because each person interprets your possibility from their own limits.

Leaving Undeparted The leaves of trees, they come and go, Arrive in Spring and then fall away. In between the whitened ends of years, They bring fresh hopes that will not stay. Rains will fall and winds

I never met my grandfather on my father's side, as he died well before I was born. However, back in Malaysia he worked as a postmaster, a post office manager in their Malaccan town, and during Japanese

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

It is worth paying attention... Sometimes you know something isn't right in a relationship long before “something” happens. Not because there is an exact rule that says yes up to here and no from here.

For my birthday I got tickets to see Jimmy Carr perform his latest stand-up routine. Carr's style and humour is not to everyone's taste, since he tends to do a lot of one-liner comedy, but it is incredibly

I have a meeting this morning in the city and sitting in an almost empty café in a shopping centre, waiting. While I have been here, there have been several app delivery people come and go, picking up

Working with my brain than against it. It has been a while since I have been a nocturnal. By the time the clock hits 11 PM, I am usually too tired to even open my laptop. These past two days have been

Do you trust yourself? It seems like such a silly question, doesn't it? Why wouldn't you trust yourself when we each believe that we are the ones who no ourselves the best. Yet consistently, we are found

Every time I read an article about the increase in medication given to children for ADHD and depression, it saddens me. As far as I see it, it is the continuation of the trajectory further into the void

I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act. _ Ben Harper What a great line. It is from the Ben Harper song, "Steal My Kisses" on the album Burn to Shine from way back in 1999. The whole